Midsumma and Australia Post Art Prize 2021
2021-04-28 00:00 - 2021-05-08 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne), 2021-06-29 00:00 UTC
I’m pleased to announce that I am a finalist in the Midsumma Australia Post Art Prize for 2021 for my work Set in Stone.
About the Prize
Since its inauguration in 2016 the Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award has quickly established itself as an important award in the ecology of the arts. With finalists selected from across the country, the non-acquisitive annual award is a survey of outstanding queer artists working across mediums reflecting their potent personal and political perspectives on the world.
In its sixth year, this selection of queer artists from across the country showcase their personal and political perspectives of the world.

Midsumma Festival is delighted to present this award and exhibition event as part of our ongoing partnership with Australia Post. Celebrating diversity and inclusion is important to Australia Post. They are committed to supporting their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer employees and driving positive change to create more inclusiveness not just throughout their workforce but throughout the wider community.
Winners and Next year’s announcements: https://www.midsumma.org.au/participate/midsumma-and-australia-post-art-award/

THE 2021 FINALISTS

J Rosenbaum
Mira Oosterweghel
Glynn Urquhart
Kate Tandoc
Martin Lee
Larissa MacFarlane
Samuel Beatty
John Gosper
Kyle KM
Revee Bendixen
Selwyn Hoffmann
Nyulla Safi
Matto Lucas
Emma Armstrong-Porter
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Image Credit: Image: Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award, image by Suzanne Balding

Generator: Imaging Futures Symposium
2021-05-06 10:30 - 15:00 (Australia/Melbourne), 2021-06-29 00:00 UTC
I will be presenting my research and work at the RMIT symposium Generator.
The Imaging Futures Lab at RMIT University presents a symposium on expanded photography and the future of the image. Involving academics, post graduate students and industry professionals, this one day symposium seeks to explore and critique new directions in the creative application of photography.

Sending you my Love
2021-06-29 00:00 UTC
“Sending You My Love” features a curated selection of unique works created using Playform AI by artists Chellcy Reitsma, Domenico Barra, J. Rosenbaum, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Noortje Stortelder, Roxy Savage, and Seda Turec. Curated by Playform Studio.

Press Release

New York – February 14, 2020 – Playform Studio, an exclusive studio for artists, debuts “Sending You My Love,” on Artsy today. The exhibition features a curated selection of unique works created using Playform AI by artists Chellcy Reitsma, Domenico Barra, J. Rosenbaum, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Noortje Stortelder, Roxy Savage, and Seda Turec.
“Sending You My Love” asks what love might look like during an era of virtual connection. Throughout the course of the global pandemic, humans adapted to a new normal, where love and the expressions of it were required to change. The seven featured artists explore what this type of love looks like through photography, digital manipulation and video work. “This exhibition demonstrates both the complexities and capabilities of human connection,” said contributing curator Mirabelle Alan, “and the ways in which technology has become an integral to expressions of love has perhaps shifted how we view the digital world.”

Gertrude St Projection Festival 2021
2021-06-29 00:00 UTC, 2021-07-21 18:00 - 2021-07-25 00:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Australia’s oldest running projection festival returns in July 2021 to present Past, Presents, Futures. My work Set in Stone has evolved as a large scale projection video work showing the evolution of the neural network through its disruption of gender bias into a series of nested mosaics.
GSPF 2021 curatorial rationale is the vision of Jacob Tolo and hits fast forward to 500 years from here, asking artists for speculative visions far beyond the now and considers the importance of constructs such as colour, race, gender, sexuality, age, ability, class and nationality. People and our environments are the impetus for project responses. How are they manifested in your future? What have you managed to take with you and what have you left behind in this new utopia? Or has it all gone to hell and you want to warn us all of Skynet!?

LCA 2022 - Roll for Initiative: how to make the world of AI a more ethical place
2022-01-01 00:00 UTC, 2022-01-16 14:25 - 15:10 (Australia/Melbourne)
Your team has gathered to fight bias, your tool, AI. How do you muster your forces and all of the abilities at your disposal to fight and slay your fearsome foe? Using all of the lawful and chaotic good tools available, how do you create a balanced party and slay the Beasts of Bias; racism, sexism and queerphobia? Can it be done? Venture together with me into the seedier side of AI as we band together to fight algorithmic injustice and create a better world. This is a dungeons and dragons themed talk about AI and ethics. I will talk about the key issues facing AI and AI engineers and what we need to do to create better, more equitable AI for all. I will talk about the considerations that need to be made, the issues that exist and how we can all band together to slay this monster.
D&D 5e Module (beta): LCA_AI Bias Campaign Module
Slides: Google Drive

and/or presented by queertech.io, ACMI and Midsumma
2022-02-05 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne), 2022-09-05 00:00 UTC
Presented by Midsumma Festival’s AND/OR program, ACMI and Queertech.io.
QueerTech.io presents an online/offline exhibition of artworks created by artists identifying as both queer and disabled. Curated by the Queertech.io artist collective and Midsumma Festival, works selected will be premiered online via exhibition on the queertech.io website and offline at a special screening at ACMI, Federation Square.
Now more than ever, queer voices are vital to a continued socio-political discourse surrounding representation in a digital landscape. Queertech.io showcases a broad cross-section of the innovative, poignant and queer-as-hell works emerging from diverse queer communities. Disabled voices, like queer voices, are marginalised, and queer disabled voices even more. Disabled artists are often overlooked in major landmark presentations and the discourse around accessibility of queer led events needs to be brought to the forefront. The queer community has many disabled members, some who have historically felt left out of Midsumma Festival events. This project highlights these artists with an online and physical show giving queer artists with a disability the opportunity to shine in a keynote Midsumma Festival presentation at ACMI.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

AI Perceptions of Gender - STOFF
2022-09-05 00:00 UTC, 2022-09-13 08:00 - 2022-09-17 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Coming to Melbourne Fringe and Stockholm fringe festival is the entirely online 3D gallery experience AI perceptions of gender where people will have the opportunity to explore works generated by AI, galleries designed by AI and interactive websites that will cause you to question your own perceptions of gender!
Check the websites at stockholmfringe.com for further details!

AI Perceptions of Gender - Melbourne Fringe Festival
2022-09-05 00:00 UTC, 2022-10-06 08:00 - 2022-10-23 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Missed the show in Stockholm? Coming to Melbourne Fringe Festival is the entirely online 3D gallery experience AI perceptions of gender where people will have the opportunity to explore works generated by AI, galleries designed by AI and interactive websites that will cause you to question your own perceptions of gender!
Check the websites at melbournefringe.com.au for further details!

Break the Binaries
2023-02-13 00:00 UTC, 2023-02-18 00:00 - 2023-06-17 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne)
Bend, blend, blur or break society’s binary codes as part of BREAK THE BINARIES, opening soon at Science Gallery Melbourne!
Installations from local and international artists will present a playful and kaleidoscopic view of identity and genders, and their relationship with science, technology, culture, race, sexuality and creativity. With collaboration at its heart, this exhibition will create connections and conversation through personal perspectives, interdisciplinary creative practice and research at The University of Melbourne.
As with all Science Gallery Melbourne exhibitions, BREAK THE BINARIES has been developed together with Curatorial Panel of young people and an Expert Advisory Group, and features a range of interdisciplinary projects across video, sound, sculpture and multimedia. Find out more about them below.
BREAK THE BINARIES builds on GENDERS: Shaping and Breaking the Binary, which took place at Science Gallery London, King’s College London. It will feature key UK artists and collectives including Adham Faramawy and Sadé Mica, whose works boldly reflect a new wave of hybrid creative practice spanning moving image, sound, sculptural installation, advocating for empowerment and social change.
Supported by the UK/Australia Season Patrons Board, the British Council and the Australian Government as part of the UK/Australia Season, in collaboration with Science Gallery London, Kings College London. f

Gender Tapestry Activation
2023-02-13 00:00 UTC, 2023-03-11 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
For One Day Only!
Gender Tapestry will have a live activation at ACMI in Melbourne in Gandel Lab 1.
Upload your selfie to help train a neural network and become a part of a community mosaic.
When you upload your selfie, the AI will assign you a colour based on your face, and will generate a two-tone image of you which will be added to the mosiac.
Submit an image of your face to experience gender classification with a twist. Instead of a gender you will receive a custom mixed color version of your image based on your classification results. This generated image is then incorporated into a library of images – a dataset used to create a colorful mosaic of GAN-generated works where the user’s image is added to the GAN to disrupt the outcome. As more people are classified, more colors are added to the library, prompting  both the GAN results and the mosaic to grow with increasing complexity.

Programmable - Roll for Initiative
2023-03-28 16:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
Slides are now available online in Part 1 and Part 2
The beta module (with the original graphics from Clip guided VQGAN!) is available here: AI Bias Campaign ModuleI’d love to know how you go if you play it!
I’ll be presenting my talk Roll for Initiative at Programmable Melbourne this year as the ending keynote. please come and help defeat the monster of AI bias!
Your team has gathered to fight bias, your tool, AI. How do you muster your forces and all of the abilities at your disposal to fight and slay your fearsome foe? Using all of the lawful and chaotic good tools available, how do you create a balanced party and slay the Beasts of Bias; racism, sexism and queerphobia? Can it be done? Venture together with me into the seedier side of AI as we band together to fight algorithmic injustice and create a better world.
This is a dungeons and dragons themed talk about AI and ethics. I will talk about the key issues facing AI and AI engineers and what we need to do to create better, more equitable AI for all. I will talk about the considerations that need to be made, the issues that exist and how we can all band together to slay this monster.

PyConAU
2023-08-18 00:00 - 2023-08-20 23:59 (Australia/Melbourne)
I’m headed to PyconAu for two talks this year, I’ll be presenting Roll for Initiative as a keynote on the Friday and Gender Tapestry on the Saturday.
Roll for InitiativeYour team has gathered to fight bias, your tool, AI. How do you muster your forces and all of the abilities at your disposal to fight and slay your fearsome foe? Using all of the lawful and chaotic good tools available, how do you create a balanced party and slay the Beasts of Bias; racism, sexism and queerphobia? Can it be done? Venture together with me into the seedier side of AI as we band together to fight algorithmic injustice and create a better world.https://2023.pycon.org.au/program/ZDDVWK/
5e compatable one shot module – PcAu_Campaign ModuleSlides – PyConAU Roll for Initiative Slides
Gender TapestryWhat is gender? It is easy to imagine gender as a linear spectrum, but in my research I have explored the concept that gender is more like a three dimensional spectrum of color. I posit that we all experience gender slightly differently, just like we experience color slightly differently. Therefore, I built an online project using Python and Flask to classify people as individual colors rather than genders, to create a tapestry of gender. and show gender as a literal, individual, spectrum.https://2023.pycon.org.au/program/LZDHUW/ Slides – PyConAu Gender Tapestry slides
Slides for Both talks will be available after and a transcript will be available if you need one.

Symposium on Diversity and Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence
2023-10-16 09:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
J. Rosenbaum will be presenting a paper on their work Gender Tapestry at The CSIRO Data 61 Symposium on Diversity and Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence in Sydney and Online.
In recent years, the impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on many aspects of society have been profound, affecting human lives and experiences in a multitude of ways. There’s a growing realization that AI systems must not only be useful but also ethically and responsibly designed, encompassing principles of diversity and inclusion.

Epoch Loop
2023-11-27 11:00 - 2024-02-11 18:00 UTC | The Loop, 157 Elizabeth St, Hobart, Tas, 7000, Australia
Set in Stone will be showing at Epoch Loop as part of Hobart Current: Epoch through December to February.

Embark on a visual odyssey with my AI-generated marble faces, an exploration of gender evolution. The journey begins with the AI mastering fixed, masculine expressions before gracefully integrating feminine features and then further to break the binary in a looping animation. Watch as the artwork dynamically shifts, breaking free from traditional confines, embracing non-binary expressions of color and joy.

This conceptual artwork delves into the machine’s process of creating gender representations, challenging and evolving its biases. A transgender neural network emerges, navigating the fluidity of gender expression beyond biological norms. The carefully curated datasets, inspired by classical statuary with a modern twist, intentionally introduce and then unravel biases, revealing a metamorphosis as the AI learns and celebrates the diversity of genders and expressions

Epoch Loop is part of Hobart Current: Epoch Public Programs and will continue to screen on The Loop for the duration of the Hobart Current exhibition.

When: Monday 27 November 2023 – Sunday 11 February 2024Monday to Friday: 11.30 am – 1 pm and 4.30 – 6 pmSaturday and Sunday: 1.30 – 3 pm and 6.30 – 8 pm

Where: 157 Elizabeth St, Central Courtyard, Hobart

Screening Schedule

NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Creativity and Design 2023
2023-12-16 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd,, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70130, United States
Gender Tapestry will be shown at the NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Creativity and Design 2023 as part of the artistic display. The schedule is on the website below. you can interact with Gender Tapestry at any time to receive your own custom color by going to https://gendertapestry.com

Gender Tapestry seeks to change attitudes towards gender classification by showing a new modality of gender classification assigning custom mixed, unique colors to users instead of a gender.

This viewing will show the video from the ACMI activation showing the evolution of the neural network and the increasing resolution of the image as more and more people interacted with the classifier. This is the first time this work has been shown at NeurIPS and shows why we need to consider gender as a 3D color spectrum instead of a binary.

RainbowAI Australia
2024-02-16 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | UNSW Kensington, High St, Kensington, NSW, 2052, Australia
J is giving a talk on their Project Gender Tapestry at Rainbow AI at UNSW in Sydney in February. This one day workshop is designed around supporting and connecting queer identifying students and researchers interested in AI technologies.

Rainbow AI is a full-day workshop that will bring together queer students in Australian universities interested in AI.We invite queer individuals and allies working in AI in academia, research, industry, and other fields, to participate in conversations with queer students interested in AI.While the focus group of the workshop is queer students currently enrolled in an Australian university, the workshop welcomes all undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students who identify as allies.

Execute_Photography
2024-03-01 11:00 - 2024-05-04 17:00 UTC | RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Interact with Gender Tapestry, a community driven AI artwork that seeks to explore a new way to during a new installation at Execute_Photography as part of Photo2024Photography is constantly dying and being reborn. AI represents the latest stage of photography’s transformation into a software output, cannibalising the camera and even transforming it into a set of executable text prompts. If it is now clear that photography is a kind of ‘program’, and that images are operational, actionable and scrapable, what does this mean for the future of the medium? Both an exploration and a provocation, this exhibition features work by Australian and international artists speculating on the social and political ramifications of photography’s afterlives.

Exhibition Curators: Alison Bennett, Shane Hulbert, Daniel Palmer, Katrina Sluis

Artists include: Memo Akten, Amrita Hepi, Max Pinckers and Dries Depoorter, Rosa Menkman, Sara Oscar, J. Rosenbaum, Sebastian Schmieg and Alan Warburton

CVPR2024 Art Gallery
2024-06-19 10:30 - 2024-06-21 18:45 UTC | Seattle Convention Center, 705 Pine St, Seattle, Washington, 98101, United States
Gender Tapestry is one of the chosen artworks taking part in this year’s CVPR art gallery online and at the conference.

The CVPR AI Art Gallery will be open to the public Wednesday, 19 June through Friday, 21 June from 10:30 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. PDT. A one-day exhibit pass will be available onsite, and guided tours will also be available on Wednesday and Thursday at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. PDT and Friday at 11 a.m. PDT only. Cash prizes for the best artworks will be awarded on Thursday, 20 June.

Knox Immerse 2024 - Set in Stone
2024-06-28 08:00 - 2024-07-28 17:00 UTC | Knox Library, 425 Burwood Hwy, Wantirna South, Victoria, 3152, Australia
Set in Stone is going huge for Knox Immerse 2024 Festival! This exhibition will show a new site specific installation of my work exhibiting the debiasing of an AI system as well as a new augmented reality interaction with the work using WebAR. Head down to the brand new Knox Gallery to see the installation in the Youth Hive including a large scale wallpaper, AR and a video feed and be immersed in AI for good.

This work is a look at gender through the lens of a biased AI system that becomes un-biased over time showing that we can update our datasets to make better AI systems.I will be conducting a workshop on self expression with AI as well so keep an eye out for more information.

Fort Earth
2024-09-25 00:00 - 2024-10-05 23:59 UTC | Fortyfive Downstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Fort Earth is a group exhibition organized by FortHeartCo exploring eco friendly approaches to art. J. Rosenbaum will be presenting a new artwork that responds to the environmental theme by using local AI systems to show our increasing reliance on AI and the environmental impact of AI. The artists in the exhibition are:

Alex DanayAngela MezzatestaAnna SteelAnnette WagnerAutumn TanseyBailey McDermottBen DavisBingo Print ShopBonnie LeeBrigit HellerCallan SkiminCat ParkerCherise MarieChico LeongDanielle CDanish QuapoorDelphine ByrneEddie JamesEmmica LoreEveryday LinesFreya McLeodGarreth PearseGiovanna Da SilvaGlen DowneyGonketaGrace StevensonHarley & HändenHeath JohnsonIan ParadineImogen DavisIngmar ApinisIssac Williams

J. RosenbaumJack MurphyJames HeenanJason ParkerJenna WinshipJohn GatipJonathon HarrisJulia SchmittJulianna NyesteKaitlin BeckettKara InezKate McCarthyKerrie O’JamesKitt Falkner BabbelKyra HannahLance ZunigaLaura BennettLauren FaheyLauren NicholsonLeili WalkerLena StumpfLily Palmer BullLiz SonntagLucinda PennLuke HunterMacarena ThreadsManda LaneMarcie O’NeillMatthew ThorleyMeg KolacMel Jane WilsonMelanie CapleMelanie Sky

Melanie WebbMelody SpangaroMichaela PegumMike MakaMinhi ParkMollie WilsonMorgan Blue StudioMycelium3000N20Nani PuspasariNanou DupuisOlivia ChinPixelsRachel DerumRachelle KoumourisRebecca JonesRhys DelinacRochelle MorrisRonny EldersSam OctiganSim DarcySimon RankinSkubzSteph TesorieroSydney FareyTim AllenTomboyBillTracey LambVicki SoarViki MurrayXander LingerZoe Haynes SmithZoe JonesZoe Milah

Diversity and Inclusion in AI Symposium
2024-11-14 08:00 - 2024-11-15 17:00 UTC
I will be presenting my AI slop research at the Diversity and Inclusion in AI Symposium online this year. I am exploring the linkages between AI slop. The propagation of images and reactions by right wing accounts, the uptick in right wing accounts sharing AI slop. Drawing connections between AI slop and the Ubermenschen, Hitler and Mussolini.

Abstract:

Generative AI is proliferating on social media at an alarming rate. Right wing spheres in particular generate and disseminate political Images with political agendas. These AI-generated images often depict soldiers, sad children, or interior designs. Of particular note are the catfishing-style “I need a husband” posts featuring women with impossible proportions, ostensibly seeking partners. These chimeric creations are bot-driven posts designed to farm engagement. These posts also offer a chilling glimpse into AI-driven beauty standards and the lack of diversity in AI-generated women. These posts reflect a mechanical view of the male gaze. However, an AI cannot truly comprehend the male gaze, and in its attempt to mimic it, it creates beings beyond understanding.

This research project aims to analyze the patterns in these images, explore posting methods and engagement. It will culminate in an artistic piece critiquing both the images and their creation and dissemination methods. By rendering these AI-generated images as classical Greek statues through Gaussian splatting and 3D printing, we aim to create a visual commentary on the intersection of AI, beauty standards, and the male gaze. This artistic approach not only highlights the absurdity of these digital constructs but also invites viewers to critically examine AI’s role in shaping contemporary perceptions of beauty and gender roles.

Slides:

D&I_AISlopDownload
